If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.